AJ Stewart Smith

Arthur John Stewart Smith , also AJ Stewart Smith , Stew Smith (* 1938 in Victoria (British Columbia) ) is a Canadian experimental particle physicist.

Smith attended Victoria High School and studied at the University of British Columbia with a bachelor's degree in 1959 (where he also excelled as a lacrosse player at the university) and a master's degree in 1961 and received his doctorate in 1966 with Pierre Piroué at Princeton University . The dissertation was on the generation of antiprotons in proton-nucleus reactions. As a post-doctoral student he was with Samuel CC Ting at DESY . He then became a professor at Princeton University, where he was from 1968 and whose physics faculty he headed from 1990 to 1998. From 2006 to 2013 he was the first Dean of Research at Princeton. He not only ensured the expansion of research and thus the acquisition of patent and license rights for the university, but also, for example, careful handling of laboratory animals. He was Professor of Physics in the Princeton Class of 1909 .

He was involved in experiments on K meson decay at Brookhaven National Laboratory (for the discovery of a very rare K meson decay, discovered after ten years of effort, he was finally awarded the Panofsky Prize) and in experiments on lepton pair generation and hadrons -Structural functions at the Fermilab . From the mid-1990s he played a leading role in the SLAC's BaBar experiment , was technical coordinator in 1999 and spokesman from 2000 to 2002. During this time he was visiting professor at SLAC. In 2001 the CP violation in the B meson system was discovered in BaBar .

In 2011 he received the Panofsky Prize with Douglas Bryman and Laurence Littenberg for the measurement of properties of the kaon decay, in particular for the discovery and measurement of the decay ${\displaystyle K^{+}\rightarrow \pi ^{+}\nu \nu }$ (laudation).

He also advised his gained in BaBar experience, the search for the Higgs at the Large Hadron Collider of CERN : 2004 to 2009 he was Chief Referee during the construction of the Compact Muon Solenoid . At CERN he is on the advisory committee for the expansion of the LHC. From 2013 to early 2016, he was Vice President of Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory. The $ 94 million increase in the National Spherical Torus Experiment fell under his auspices.

He is an advisor to the National Nuclear Research Institute in Italy and the SNOLAB underground experiment in Ontario, Canada.

He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society , whose Particles and Fields division he headed in 1991. In 2009 he received an honorary doctorate from the University of Victoria.

Web links

• Princeton website

Individual evidence

1. ^ Panofsky Prize 2011